CURRICULUM VITAE
Evelynn M. Hammonds Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University
Office Telephone: (617) 495-4336 Office FAX: (617) 495-3344 E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
1993 Ph.D. Harvard University, History of Science
1980 S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics
1976 B.S. Spelman College, Physics
1976 B.E.E. Georgia Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2017 –present Chair, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
2013 – present Director, Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
2007- present Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
2008- 2013 Dean of Harvard College
2005- 2008 Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Harvard University Evelynn M. Hammonds Page 2
2005-2006 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
2002-present Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
1999- 2002 Associate Member, Department of the History of Science Harvard University
2001 Founding Director, MIT Center for the Study of Diversity in Science Technology and Medicine
1999 Visiting Associate Professor of the History of Science And Women’s Studies, University of California Los Angeles
1998-2002 Associate Professor of the History of Science (w tenure) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1997- 1998 Associate Professor of the History of Science, (w/o tenure) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1992 -1997 Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1990 - 1991 Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Science Hampshire College
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
G. R. Patterson Lecture, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, CHM Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. May 28, 2017
HSS Distinguished Lecture, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 6, 2016
Founder’s Award, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, Boston, MA, June 10, 2014
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The Centennial Yerby Lecture in Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, “The Progressives’ Vision: Public Health is Purchasable.” May 6, 2014
“Woman of Courage and Conviction Award,” Greater Boston Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, March 2014
Ida B. Wells Distinguished Lecture, Spelman College, Sept. 2013
“Leaders: The New Face of Progress,” The Root.com. June, 2013
Women Science and Technology (WST), Distinguished Lecturer Award, The Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST) Georgia Institute of Technology 2013
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Bates College 2011
YWCA Empowering Women Award 2010 YWCA, Cambridge, MA
Catalyst Award, Science Club for Girls, Cambridge, MA 2009
Fellow of the Association of Women in Science (AWIS) 2008
Trailblazer Award, 125th Anniversary, Spelman College 2006
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Spelman College 2004
Walker Ames Distinguished Professor 2004 University of Washington, Seattle
Spelman College Alumnae Achievement Award 2003
Sigma Xi, Distinguished Lecturer 2003-05 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
The HistoryMakers, Interview in Library of Congress 2002
Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon Chapter of Georgia 2001 (elected as alumni of Spelman College)
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Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany 2001
Class of 1947 Career Development Chair, MIT 1995-98
Post-doctoral Fellowship, National Endowment 1994-95 for the Humanities, in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Sadie T. M. Alexander Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Black Women, Spelman College 1995
Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities 1991-92
Five College Minority Dissertation Fellow 1989-90
Minority Prize Fellowship, Harvard University 1985-91
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
History of Science, Medicine, Biomedical Sciences and Public Health in the United States, 19th and 20th centuries Race, Gender and Science Studies, United States Feminist Theory, United States Genetics and Society
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Most Recent
2017 Correspondence, with Susan Reverby, “Statues: Researchers to mind their history,” Nature, vol. 549, 21 Sept. 2017, p. 334.
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2012 Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds, “ The Dilemma of Classification: The Past in the Present” in Wailoo, Nelson, et al, editors, Genetics and the Unsettled Past (Rutgers University Press, 2011)
2008 Lundy Braun and Evelynn Hammonds, Race, “Population, and Genomics: Africa as laboratory,” Social Science and Medicine, vol. 30 (2008) pp. 1-9
2007 Evelynn Hammonds (w co-authors) “Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?” PLOS Medicine, vol. 4, issue 9, (Sept. 2007) e271
2005 “Straw men and their Followers: The return of biological race” published in on line web forum on Race and Genomics by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) at http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/
The Use of Race Variables in Genetic Studies of Complex Traits and the Goal of Reducing Health Disparities: A Transdisciplinary Perspective” (with co-authors) American Psychologist, vol. 60, no. 1 January 2005.
2003 Conversation on Feminist Science Studies,” with B. Subramanian, Signs: Journal of Women in Society.
Books
2011 The Harvard Sampler,: Liberal Education for the Twenty-first Century, edited by Jennifer M. Shephard, Stephen M. Kosslyn, and Evelynn M. Hammonds (Harvard University Press)
2008 The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics ,co-authored with Rebecca Herzig (MIT Press)
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The Logic of Difference: A History of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States, 1850-1990 – in progress
Consulting Editor, Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society (forthcoming from Oxford University Press)
1999 Childhood’s Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Chapters in Books
2005 Gendering the Epidemic: Feminism and the Epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the United States, 1981-1999” in Angela Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and Londa Schiebinger, eds. Science, Medicine, and Technology in the 20th Century: What Difference Has Feminism Made? (University of Chicago Press)
1997 “Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence” in M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, eds., Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge). Also appears in Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick, eds, Feminist Theory and the Body, A Reader (Routledge, 1999)
1997 “Seeing AIDS: Race, Gender and Representation” in J. Manlowe and N. Goldstein, eds. The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women: Perspectives on the Pandemic in the U.S., New York University Press.
1997 "When the Margin is the Center: African-American Feminism(s) and 'Difference'" in Joan W. Scott, Cora Kaplan, and Debra Keates, eds. Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in International Politics, Routledge.
1997 “New Technologies of Race” in Jennifer Terry, Melodie Calvert, eds. Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life, Routledge.
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1995 "Science, Politics, and the Art of Persuasion: Promoting the New Scientific Medicine in New York City" with Elizabeth Fee in David Rosner ed., Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 155-196.
Other Major Publications
2004 “Power and Politics in Feminism’s History and Future,” Journal of Women’s History,
1996 Barbara Laslett, Sally G. Kohlstedt, Helen Longino, and Evelynn Hammonds, eds. Gender and Scientific Authority, University of Chicago Press.
1995 "Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality," differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 6.2+3, 1994, 127-145. (Also appears in Kum-Kum Bhavani, ed. Feminism and ‘Race,’ Oxford University Press, 2000)
1993 “Clarence Thomas, Affirmative Action and the Academy” in B. Thompson and S. Tyagi, eds., Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence, Univ. of Minnesota Press
1992 "Science" and "Roger Arliner Young" in Darlene Clark Hine, ed. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, New York: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1992
1990 "Missing Persons: Black Women and AIDS," Radical America, 24:2, (April-June 1990, pub. July 1992) pp. 7-24. (Also appears in Beverly Guy-Sheftall, ed., Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, The New Press, 1995)
1990 "Conflicts and Tensions in the Feminist Study of Gender and Science" with Helen Longino in E. F. Keller and M. Hirsch eds., Conflicts in Feminism, New York: Routledge, 164-183. (Part 2
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of this essay, (pp, 176-181) were written by me as identified in the text.)
1987 “AIDS in Africa,” with M. Cerullo, Radical America, vol 20, no. 7, 1987
1986 "Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of Other," Radical America, 5:6. (Also appears in Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, eds. Race, Class, and Gender; An Anthology, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1991 and 1995, and S. Maasik and J. Solomon eds. Signs of Life in the U. S. A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994)
Reviews
2002 Review of Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 27: 125-129.
1998 Review of Susan L. Smith, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women’s Health Activism in America, 1890- 1950.(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72: 158-159.
1997 Review of Donna J. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan© Meets_Oncomouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (New York: Routledge, 1997) Journal of the History of Biology 30: 494-497, 1997
1994 Review of Barbara Bair and Susan Cayleff, eds. Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness, Women’s Review of Books, November, 1994
1993 "Physician, Heal Thyself," Review of "Medicine at the Crossroads" Technology Review, April, 1993
1993 Review of Barbara Bates, Bargaining for Life: A Social History
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of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938, Journal of American History. Winter, 1993
1993 Review of Helen Bequaert Holmes and L. Purdy, Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics and Susan Sherwin, No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care, in Women's Review of Books, May, 1993
1991 Review of "“Science and Technology," Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women,” Science, Aug. 31, 1991, p. 919.
1990 Review of Evelyn C. White, The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking For Ourselves, Women's Review of Books, June, 1990, p. 1.
1989 Review of Darlene Clark Hine, Black Women in White: Racial Conflict in the Nursing Profession, Women’s’ Review of Books, October, 1989
SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, ETC.
Panelist, African Ancestry, Human Genetics and Population Health in Latin America, Medical University of Havana, Cuba, June 15-16, 2017, Havana, Cuba.
Introduction, Norton Lecture, 2017, Toni Morrison: “Narrating the Other,” April 11, 2017, Harvard University
Panelist, “Slavery and Public Health: Past, Present, and Future” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, May 4, 2017, Boston, Ma.
Lecture, Science on the Screen: Hidden Figures, Coolidge Corner Theatre, April 24, 2017, Brookline, MA
Keynote Address, Black Women in the Academy Conference, Northeastern University, Feb. 10, 2017, Boston.MA
Panelist, Diversity in Troubled Times, American Physical Society, April Meeting, 2017, Washington, DC.
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Comment, Screening of Hidden Figures, Kendall Square Theatre, Dec. 8, 2016, Cambridge, Ma.
Respondent, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values- Dorothy E. Roberts, “The Ethics of Biosocial Science,” Nov. 2, 2016, Harvard University
Panelist, “Race in the Natural and Medical Sciences,” Race and Racialisation: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 28-29, 2016.
Keynote Lecture, “History Matters: Women Scientists in America – A Review” National Collegiate Research Conference, Harvard College January 11, 2016.
Keynote Lecture, “Being Color Brave” Not Color Blind: Creating an Inclusive Academy in the 21st century,” C3 Summit, Bates College, Nov. 14, 2015.
Keynote Lecture, “Science Confronts ‘Race”: Challenges and Opportunities,” Brown University, Nov. 3, 2015
Keynote Lecture, “The State of Race and Racism in Contemporary Biomedicine” Georgia Inst. of Technology, Oct. 16, 2015.
Lecture, “W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Negro Scientist"” Spring Colloquium W.E.B. DuBois Fellows, Harvard University, February 2, 2015.
Moderator, Screening and panel discussion “DNA Dreams”with George Church, Peter Galison, Arthur Kleinman, and Bregte van der Haak, Harvard University February 4, 2015.
Facilitator, “Developing Scholars and Leaders through Intergenerational Education: The Harvard Experiment” Harvard University, May 14, 2015.
Panelist, “Gender: A Dialogue Between the Sciences and Humanities,” Barnard College, April 25, 2015.
Panelist, Public Forum on Ebola, First Parish , Cambridge, MA December 8, 2014.
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Lecture, Presidential W.E.B. DuBois Lecture, “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Challenge to Scientific Racism,” University of Maryland- Baltimore County, November 11, 2014.
Keynote Address, “Science Confronts Race: A Contested History,” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Evanston/North Shore YWCA, November 6, 2014.
Panelist, United in Anger Film Screening and Q&A. Harvard Film Archive, October 20, 2014.
Panelist, “Diversity in Physics: Challenges and Opportunities”, Scattering, Superconductivity and Exotic States of Matter, Symposium in Honor of Chancellor Emeritus Robert J. Birgeneau. University of California Berkeley, Ocotber 18, 2014.
Keynote Address, “Your Silence Will Not Protect You: A Personal View of the Challenge of Gay Rights in the Workplace,” National Science Foundation, June 19, 2014.
Panelist, “Talking About Race: Science, Politics, Art – 1959, 1970, 2014” The Public Forum, The Public Theater, New York City, May 30, 2014.
Moderator, “Historicizing Racial Embodiment in the Transnational U.S.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Canada, May 25, 2014.
Panelist, “Feminism, Feminist Theory, and Science: Where We’ve Been and Where We are Going, A Symposium in Honor of Prof. Anne Fausto- Sterling,” Brown University, May 2, 2014.
Panelist, “The Future of Race and Science: Regression or Revolution” Program in Race, Science and Society, University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2014.
Paper, “The Concept of ‘Race’ and/in the History of Science and Medicine” Science, Technology, and Society Program, University of British Columbia, Feb. 27, 2014.
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Panelist, “Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia,” National Academy of Sciences, June 7, 2012.
Panelist, Celebration of the Life of Adrienne Rich, MIT, October 28, 2012.
Panelist, “Eliminating Health Disparities: Transdisciplinary Perspectives” Harvard University, October 11, 2012
Moderator, 15th Anniversary Celebration of Women in Science, Museum of Science, Boston, September, 2012.
Keynote, Panel, “Seeking Solutions: Maximizing Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia,” National Academy of Sciences, June 7, 2012.
Keynote lecture, “Resisting Partial Victories,” Emory University,” April, 2012
ADVANCE Distinguished lecture, University of Maryland College Park, 2011
Helen Rogers Reid Memorial Lecture, Barnard College, 2011
“African –American Women and HIV/AIDS” in the ACT-in UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest Lecture Series, Harvard University, November 19, 2009
Co-Chair Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) Mini-Symposium on Women of Color in STEM: Perspectives on Experiences, Research, Education, and Policy in Higher Ed. Careers. National Science Foundation October 27-28, 2009
Keynote Address, Black Women in the Ivory Tower Conference, Rutgers University March 3 -4, 2009
Muriel V. Roscoe Lecture, McGill University, October 23, 2008
Commentator, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 2006-2007, Harvard University, November, 2006.
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Panelist, National Council of Research on Women Summit on Diversity, June, 2006.
Co-Leader, Mellon Foundation-United Negro College Fund Workshop on AIDS In America, Africa and the Diaspora, Accra, Ghana June, 2006
Keynote Address, MIT Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine, April, 2006.
Romano Lecture, State University of New York, Binghamton March, 2006
Distinguished lecture in Science Studies, Richmond University, September 2005
Clendenning Lecture in the History of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, September 2005.
NSF ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, February, 2005
Lecture, Race, Health and Medicine Series, Department of African American Studies, Yale University, January, 2005
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Lecture, University of Rochester, School of Medicine, January, 2005
Panelist, Race and the New Genetics, American Anthropological Assoc., September 2004
Keynote Lecture, “AIDS the Secret, Silent, Suffering, Shame” Conference on “Learning From Our Lives: Women, Girls &HIV/AIDS in the African American and African Diaspora,” Spelman College, June, 2004.
Keynote Lecture, Race and the Human Genome Conference, Brown University, October, 2004
Lecture, W. E. B. DuBois Institute Colloquia, Harvard University, November 2003
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Allison Davis Lecture, The Department of African American Studies and the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg of College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, November 2003
Panelist, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, “Gender, Race and Rights in African American Women’s History”, October 2003
Rolf Buchdahl Lecture in Science, Technology & Values North Carolina State University, September 2003
Lecture, African American Studies Program’s Fall Lecture Series, Wesleyan University, October 2002
Keynote Address, National Conference of Ford Fellows, “Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Scholarship in a Global Society,” October 2002
Panelist, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, “Defining Women’s Health”, May 2002
Keynote Address, Spelman College, Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony, April 2002
Panelist, National Institutes of Health Conference, “Racial and Ethnic Bias in Health: Scientific Evidence, Methods and Policy Implications”, April 2002
Lecture, Brown University, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in American Faculty Seminar Series, “The Science of Race”, March 2002
Panelist, Georgetown University, “Emerging Ethical Issues in Smoking and Genetics”, March 2002
Lecture, Tufts University, The Black Cultural Studies Seminar, “Race, Racism and Science”, March 2002
Inaugural Address, Drew University, Women’s Studies Visiting Scholar Series, February 2002
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Panelist, Barnard College, “Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science and Technology?”, February 2002
Lecture, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Logic of Difference: Racial Categories in Medicine”, January 2002
Panelist, Society for the Social Study of Science, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.,, “Race, Science, and Culture” November 2001
Lecture, Brown University, Science Studies Series, October 2001
Lecture, Hobart and William Smith College, October 2001
Panelist, Rutgers University, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, “The Politics of Racial Health: Myths, Maladies, and the History of Policy” October 2001
Keynote Address, Centennial Lecture, New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Research Center, September 2001
Lecture, Rutgers University, Douglass College, September 2001
Lecture, McGovern Lecture, Dept. of the History of Science and African American Studies, Harvard University May 2001
Lecture, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, May 2001
Lecture, Dept. of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, May 2001
Lecture, First Annual Domna Stanton Lecture, Women’s Studies Program, Wellesley College, April 2001
Pennsylvania State University, April 2001
Panelist, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Feminism, Science, and Civil Society Series, April 2001
Panelist, American Public Health Assoc. Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, October 2000
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Lecture, Annenberg Lecture in Women’s History, University of Pennsylvania, April 2000
Lecture, The Diane Weiss Memorial Lecture, Wesleyan University, April 2000
Lecture, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, March 2000
Lecture, Women’s Studies Program, Barnard College, October 1999
Lecture, UCLA School of Public Health, April 1999
Panelist, Race in the 21st Century Conference, Michigan State University March 1999
Lecture, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, March 1999
Lecture, UCLA Program in Medical Classics, UCLA February 1999
Panelist, Conference on Science, Medicine and Technology: What Difference Has Feminism Made?, Princeton University, April 1998
Panelist, University of Warwick, England, August 1998.
Keynnote, The William Snow Miller Memorial Lecture, Dept. of the History of Medicine University of Wisconsin- Madison, April 1998
Lecture, “Feminism’s “Race” Question Conference, UCLA March 1998
Keynote, The Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT, March 1998
Panelist, American Anthropological Assoc., Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 1996
Panelist, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Mohonk House, New Paltz, New York, November 1996
Lecture, Rutgers University, Douglass College, January 1996
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Lecture, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., National Library of Medicine, February 1996
Panelist, 10th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, June 1996
Panelist, Gender and Technologies of the Body Conference, Ohio State University, April 1995
Panelist, Transitions, Environments, Translations Conference Rutgers University, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton and Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, April 1995.
Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 1995
Lecture, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain, Mujeres De Ciencia. Pasado Y Presente, June 1994
Annual Meeting, History of Science Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1993
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/ACTIVITIES
Member, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine, (CWSEM) of the National Academies, 2017-present
Advisory Editor, Online Bibliography of African American Studies, Oxford University Press, 2015
Editorial Board, Journal of Feminist Technosciences, 2014
Associate Editor, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2014 – present
Member of President Obama’s Advisory Committee on Educational Excellence for African Americans, 2014 -present
Member of the Board, Arcus Foundation, 2013 - present
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Member of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on the Merit Review Process (MRPAC) of the National Science Foundation, 2011- 2012
Member of the Advisory Committee, Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate, National Science Foundation- 2015
Member of the Board of the National Humanities Center, 2009- 2012
Member of President Obama’s National Advisory Committee on Historically Black Colleges and Universities , 2010 - present
Member of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Dean of Undergraduate Education, 2010 - present
Member, Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) Congressionally Mandated Advisory Committee to the National Science Foundation 2009 – 2014
Member, Board of Trustees, Spelman College, 2008- 2015
Trustee of The Charity of Edward Hopkins, 2008 -present
Member of the Board of Trustees, Association of American Colleges and Universities 2007 -2011
Associate Faculty, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, 2006 - present
Member of the Board of Governors, University of California Humanities Research Institute, 2006-2008
Reviewer, “Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering,” National Academy of Sciences 2006.
Member, Board of Overseers, Museum of Science, Boston, Ma. 2006 - 2015
Member, Board of Trustees, Social Science Research Council, May, 2006 - 2009
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Member of the Board of Trustees, Bennett College for Women, 2002-2005.
Chair, Task Force on Women Faculty, Harvard University, January – May, 2005
Member, Social Science Advisory Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, September, 2004 – 2006.
Member, General Education Committee, Harvard University, September, 2004 -May, 2005
Member, Standing Committee on Women, Harvard University, September, 2004 - present
Member, National Advisory Committee, Brandeis University Women’s Studies Program, 2004 -present
Member, Advisory Committee on Degrees in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Harvard University, 2003 - present
Co-Editor, Race and Gender in Science Studies Book Series, University of Illinois Press, 2004
Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians, Program Committee, 2000- 2002
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Panelist, Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program, March 2002
NSF Review panel ADVANCE Program, June 2001
Project Scholar, “Race – The Power of an Illusion” California Newsreel Productions, 2001-2002
Member, National Panel on Higher Education BEST (Building Engineering and Science Talent) Project, 2001-2002
Member of the Advisory Committee, “Race, Gender and the Sciences at a Historically Black College” Curriculum Development Project. Spelman College 2000-2003.
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Panelist, Greater Expectations Project, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2000-2002
Associate Editor, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1999- 2002
History of Science Society , Council, Member 1999 – 2001;
Co-organizer of Black Women in the Academy II: Service and Leadership, June, 1999
Member of the Board of Directors, Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies, Radcliffe College, 1997- 1998
Consultant, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Project: Women and Scientific Literacy: Building Two-Way Streets, 1996-1999
History of Science Society, Co-chair, Committee on Women, 1993-95
Organization of American Historians, Program Committee, 1996-97
American Association for the History of Medicine
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Program Committee, 1992-93
Project Scholar, "Breakthrough: The Changing Face of American Science" documentary produced by Blackside Productions, Boston, 1994
Co-organizer of Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name, 1894-1994, National Conference January, 1994
Project Scholar, "The People's Plague: The American Response to Tuberculosis" documentary produced by Florentine Films, funded by NEH, 1993
Consultant, Spelman College, Ford Foundation Curricula Project in Women’s Studies, 1994-1997
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Consultant, University of California, Berkeley, Department of African and African American Studies, Ford Foundation Curricula Project, 1997
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